From the Grésigne to the ridges of the Montagne Noire, a hunting property for sale in Tarn can take very different forms, because the department climbs in steps from the plains of the west to the uplands of the east and south. In the north-west, the state forest of La Grésigne, an oak forest on sandstone ringed by limestone plateaux, looks towards the causses of Quercy. To the east, the Ségala and the Viaur valley, then the Monts de Lacaune and the granite of the Sidobre, between Castres and Lacaune, offer high ground covered with broadleaves and conifers. In the south, the Montagne Noire separates Tarn from Aude. More intensively farmed, the Lauragais, the Gaillac country and the Albigeois are mainly suited to small game. This page brings together the hunting estates and woods for sale in the department, listed by private sellers, estate agents and notaires.
Next you will find the prices recorded for woods and ponds in Tarn, the official game bag figures, which show the rise of red deer, and the points to check on a shoot before making an offer. Our analysis of forest prices in Occitanie places Tarn among its neighbouring departments.
A hunting estate is rarely valued with a single figure: its price adds up the value of the woodland, the ponds, the buildings and the shooting facilities. The statistics below give benchmarks for wooded land and ponds, based on sales actually recorded.
According to the ma-propriete.fr forest price observatory, built from sales recorded in the French DVF land registry database, the median price of a hectare of forest in Tarn was €4,075/ha in 2025*, across 54 sales, with an average of €4,653/ha. That puts the department above the Occitanie median (€3,333/ha) and below the national median (€4,936/ha). Compared with 2024, the median changed by +9.2%, a movement to interpret with care given the number of sales. Over the more robust 2020-2025 period, 318 sales give a median of €4,044/ha for a median plot size of 4.0 ha.
| Indicator | Tarn (81) | Occitanie | France |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median price 2025 | €4,075/ha* | €3,333/ha | €4,936/ha |
| Average price 2025 | €4,653/ha* | €4,675/ha | €6,214/ha |
| Number of sales 2025 | 54 | 636 | 6,329 |
| Change in median 2024 → 2025 | +9.2%* | −8.2% | +1.9% |
| Median price 2020-2025 | €4,044/ha | €3,560/ha | €4,778/ha |
| Number of sales 2020-2025 | 318 | 3,690 | 35,100 |
Nationally, the price per hectare rises with size: the large properties that appeal to hunters sell for more per hectare than medium-sized woods.
| Size of forest sold (France, 2020-2025) | Median price | Number of sales |
|---|---|---|
| 10 to 20 ha | €4,010/ha | 3,161 |
| 20 to 50 ha | €5,330/ha | 1,850 |
| 50 to 100 ha | €6,810/ha | 581 |
| Over 100 ha | €7,361/ha | 320 |
Ponds trade at a very different level: with too few sales in Tarn, the benchmark is the regional median of €10,466/ha for ponds sold without buildings between 2020 and 2025.
On the listings side, 18 hunting properties are offered on ma-propriete.fr across France as of 2 October 2026, 2 of them in Occitanie. Their median asking price is €888,000 for a median size of about 68 ha. These are asking prices for complete properties: they describe the supply on offer more than the average price of a wooded hectare.
* 30 to 99 sales: indicative value. Source: DVF (French tax authority), processed by ma-propriete.fr; forests of 1 ha or more, cadastral type woodland; ponds without buildings of at least 2,000 m²; July 2020 to December 2025; Moselle, Bas-Rhin and Haut-Rhin are not covered by DVF. Listings recorded on ma-propriete.fr on 2 October 2026.
The game bag records published by the French Biodiversity Agency (OFB) measure hunting pressure and, indirectly, the presence of big game. In Tarn, 785 red deer were taken in the 2024-2025 season, about 0.9% of the national total, alongside 8,060 roe deer and 7,108 wild boar.
| Species | 2021-2022 season | 2024-2025 season | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Red deer | 590 | 785 | +33% |
| Roe deer | 7,371 | 8,060 | +9% |
| Wild boar | 6,175 | 7,108 | +15% |
Source: OFB, wild ungulates network, departmental big game bags (total culls, data published on data.gouv.fr).
Red deer are the big story in Tarn hunting in recent years: their cull has risen sharply over the past fifteen years or so. The departmental federation monitors several population centres, around the Grésigne in the north-west, in the Viaur valley and the eastern Ségala, in the Monts de Lacaune and towards Murat-sur-Vèbre. La Grésigne, a state-owned oak forest on sandstone, is not for sale, but the private woods along its edges, towards Castelnau-de-Montmiral, Puycelsi or Vaour, draw the interest of big game hunters.
Further east, the Viaur gorges mark the boundary with Aveyron: steep slopes, oak and chestnut woods, and pasture on the Ségala uplands. Shoots there are often split between several owners, and a hunting wood there often depends on agreements on driven days between neighbours; across the river, hunting grounds in Aveyron continue the same landscape.
In the south-east, within the Haut-Languedoc regional nature park, the Monts de Lacaune and the Montagne Noire carry beech woods, silver fir and many conifer plantations, Douglas fir first among them. Hunting there means driven days on steep slopes and stalking; snow, gradient and access tracks count as much as acreage. In these production forests, red deer raise the question of the balance between forest and game: bark stripping and browsing of young plantations eat into timber income, and a buyer who also wants to grow wood must take this into account when applying for cull allocations.
To the west, the Tarn part of the Lauragais and the hills of the Gaillac country and the Albigeois are farming and wine country where woods remain scattered: red-legged partridge, hare, wild rabbit and woodcock, which the federation monitors every season, make up most of the hunting.
Tarn has practically no ACCAs, the statutory communal hunting associations: hunting is organised by several hundred village societies and by private shoots. Owners therefore keep full use of their hunting rights, but many woods are made available to the local society; check the agreements in force and the customs, sometimes long-standing, that tie the estate to the village hunters. For red and roe deer, which are under the cull plan, ask for the allocations and actual culls of recent seasons. The federation also compensates damage by red deer, roe deer and wild boar to crops and grassland; an under-hunted shoot soon creates friction with neighbouring farmers.
On fencing, the Monts de Lacaune and the Montagne Noire are familiar with the protective fences put up around young plantations; being linked to forestry, they fall in principle within the exceptions of the act of 2 February 2023. A mesh fence enclosing a whole shoot to keep game in is another matter: in natural or forest zones, it must leave a 30 cm gap beneath its lowest wire, stay no higher than 1.20 m and remain passable by animals, and fences installed in the thirty years before the act must be adapted by 1 January 2027. Our article on the obligations of owners of fenced estates sets out the steps.
On ma-propriete.fr, hunting estates and woods in Tarn are put up for sale by private sellers, estate agents and notaires. Sort them by size or price, set up an e-mail alert, or post your own listing. If timber production is your priority, see our forests and woods for sale in Tarn; to widen the search, look at the hunting property for sale in Occitanie.
